P.N. Ravindran, J.

1. The petitioners are the landlords in R.C.P. No. 1 of 2013 on the file of the Rent Control Court, Mavelikkara, a petition filed by them for an order evicting the respondent herein from a residential building, under sections 11(2)(b) and 11(3) of the Kerala Buildings (Lease & Rent Control) Act, 1965, hereinafter referred to as 'the Act' for short.

2. The petitioners had in the rent control petition averred that, the petition schedule house jointly belongs to them and that excluding two rooms on the southern side, the remaining portion of the house has been let out on rent to the respondent who is none other than the brother-in-law of the first petitioner and the brother of the second petitioner, that the initial entrustment was in the year 2003 for a period of 11 months, but having regard to the relationship between the parties no written agreement was entered into, that when the first petitioner who was employed abroad returned to his native place a demand was made to the respondent to execute a lease deed to continue to occupy the premises, that on such demand the respondent executed a lease deed in the year 2005 undertaking to vacate the premises on the